The United States warned Iran at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday against targeting it or Israel as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the “deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence must stop” in the Middle East. “Time is running out,” he told the council....

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei  warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in an Israeli strike and is now deeply worried about Israeli infiltration of senior government ranks in Tehran, three Iranian sources said. In the immediate aftermath...

France on Wednesday condemned a fresh Israeli attack on school and orphanage in northern Gaza. “France strongly condemns the new Israeli strikes in Gaza that targeted a school and an orphanage in northern Gaza, as well as a home in Khan Younis in the south, which left nearly 40 dead according...

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has told his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant that Washington had “increased force readiness” in the region in anticipation of the Iranian attack. The call appeared to have taken place before Iran launched hundreds of missiles towards Israel....